brick bonding Flashcards
What is a Stretcher bond?
A type of brick bonding where bricks are laid with their long side facing out.
Define Header bond.
A type of brick bonding where bricks are laid with their short side facing out.
What characterizes English bond?
A brick bonding pattern that alternates between headers and stretchers in each course.
What is Flemish bond?
A brick bonding pattern that alternates headers and stretchers in each course.
Describe English garden wall bond.
A brick bonding pattern that consists of alternating stretchers and headers, typically used for garden walls.
What is a Zig-zag brick bond?
A brick bonding pattern that creates a zig-zag effect with the bricks.
Define Scottish bond.
A type of brick bond that features alternating courses of headers and stretchers but is less common.
What is American bond?
A brick bonding style that typically features a row of stretchers followed by a row of headers.
Describe Flemish garden wall bond.
A variation of Flemish bond used specifically for garden walls.
What is a Herringbone bond?
A brick bonding pattern that resembles fish bones, often used for decorative purposes.
What is Facing bond?
A brick bonding pattern that is designed to show the face of the bricks prominently.
List the main materials used in the construction industry.
- Steel
- Clay bricks
- Plastic
- Timber
- Concrete
- Glass
What properties should be considered when looking at building materials?
- Density/bulk density saturated
- Chemical composition
- Adhesion
- Cohesion
- Workability
- Water resistance
- Tensile strength
- Sulphur resistance
- Modes of failure
- Effects of environmental conditions
What are the properties of cement render?
- Adhesion
- Cohesion
- Workability
- Weathering
- Tensile strength
- Sulphur resistance
What properties characterize steel?
- Strength (tensile vs compressive)
- Toughness
- Brittleness
- Ductility
- Strength to weight ratio
- Durability
List the properties of timber.
- Durability
- Strength
- Permeability
- Hardness
- Toughness
- Elasticity
- Workability
- Fire resistance
- Aesthetics
- Colour
What are the properties of brickwork?
- Hardness
- Compressive strength
- Frost resistance
- Efflorescence
- Sulphate attack
List the properties of glass.
- Compressive and tensile strength
- Elasticity
- Hardness and brittleness
- Weather resistance
- Insulation
- Chemical resistance
- Transparency
- Fire resistance
What are the properties of plastic?
- High strength to weight ratio
- Durability
- Waterproofness
- Workability
- Recyclable
What are the two types of plastic?
- Thermoplastics
- Thermosets
Define mechanical properties.
- Strength
- Elasticity
- Brittleness
- Impact strength
- Creep
- Hardness
- Plasticity
- Fatigue
- Abrasion resistance
What is the definition of strength of materials?
The study of behaviors of objects subject to stress and strain.
True or False: Concrete is strong in tension.
False
What is the tensile vs compression strength of timber?
Timber is strong in both tension and compression but can be weak in bending.
